Lost in Translation? Comparing British, Japanese, and Italian Children’s Theory-of-Mind Performance

Table 2

Tetrachoric correlation matrix for theory-of-mind indicators.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
(1) First-order false Belief (nice surprise)	—
(2) First-order false belief (nasty surprise)	.70	—
(3) First-order false belief (chocolate)	.66	.51	—
(4) First-order false belief (puppy)	.53	.61	.71	—
(5) Infer emotion from false belief (nice)	.91	.69	.58	.43	—
(6) Infer emotion from false belief (nasty)	.35	.70	.22	.33	.35	—
(7) Second-order false belief (chocolate)	.57	.65	.88	.57	.55	.32	—
(8) Second-order false belief (puppy)	.54	.55	.64	.87	.56	.28	.70	—

Note: all values are significant, 𝑃<.001.